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Level r consensus and stable social choice
Mahajne, Muhammad; Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Volij, Oscar - 2014
the stability of social choice. This concept involves a weakening of unanimity, the most extreme form of consensus. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356368
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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods
Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001
This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399681
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
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On the political economy of university admission standards
De Donder, Philippe; Martinez-Mora, Francisco - 2015
. Even though individual preferences are neither single-peaked nor single-crossing, we obtain a unique majority voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528937
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806641
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A fairness justification of utilitarianism
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2016
Differences in preferences are important to explain variation in individuals' behavior. There is however no consensus on how to take these differences into account when evaluating policies. While prominent in the economic literature, the standard utilitarian criterion faces two major...
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Efficient incentives with social preferences
Daske, Thomas; March, Christoph - 2022
This study explores mechanism design with allocation-based social preferences. Agents' social preferences and private payoffs are all subject to asymmetric information. We assume quasi-linear utility and independent types. We show how the asymmetry of information about agents' social preferences...
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Collective choice with heterogeneous time preferences
Pakhnin, Mikhail - 2021
, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546897
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The preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel : evidence and theory
Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2014
We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and … model of behavioral political economy that includes decoy voting, vanity of autocrats, and a Schelling focal point for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422167
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Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …
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